Conversation with Dr. Morcuende

November 4, 2004

I talked with Dr. Morcuende of the University of Iowa yesterday

about the trips that he has been making to provide training in the

Ponseti method. Over the past three years, Dr. Morcuende has

traveled to a number of different countries around the world as

orthopedic societies and groups have requested training in the

Ponseti method.

Dr. Morcuende, Dr. Pirani, Dr. Norgrove Penny, Dr. Sinclair and

others have been making trips to other countries to provide Ponseti

method training to other orthopedic societies and groups.

Dr. Morcuende said that he had probably been on about 14 trips in

the past few years. Since Dr. Morcuende is originally from Spain,

he and the U of Iowa have kind of taken on the respondsibility to

try to go to Central and South American Countries. He said that

there are now Ponseti method trained doctors in all countries in

South America except Paraguay and Equador. He has also been to

meetings in Portugal, Iceland (Scandanavian Orthopedics

Association), Thialand and India.

He said that he was going to Chile and India again in the next

couple of months. He said that they typically have from one to a

few doctors visiting Iowa every week. He said that next week there

are some doctors from Scandinavia who will be there for most of the

week.

Dr. Pirani has been to India a number of times,Brazil, Bahrain,

U.K., as well as his annual visits to Uganda.

Dr. Penny and one of Dr. Herzenbergs associates went to China

recently.

Dr. Sinclair in Germany has been training other doctors in Germany

as well as made a trip to Lithuania.

There are also other individual doctors who have set up small

orthopedic programs that may include clubfoot treatment in many of

these countries. He mentioned that Dr. Speigel from Minneapolis has

adopted a clinic in Nepal that he goes to each year. There were

many doctors who had orthopedic programs going to different

countries prior to the Ponseti methods expansion. Some of these

programs were talked about at the 2002 POSNA meeting in Salt Lake

City.

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